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SUMMER CHALLENGE 2020
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Rockynook10.2 - “A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother.”
MPG of Thriller
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry by Mary Higgins Clark
Points this Post: 10
Total Points: 535
Delicious Dee20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Sunshine's Task: Springfield!
Option 1: Head Over Heels - currently has 19,502 ratings
Points this Post: 20
Total Points: 1035
Delicious Dee30.8 - Aprilleigh’s Task: The Karate Fan Club
Book 1 - Fiction - Daughter of Joy - Kathleen Morgan - Daughter of Joy Kathleen Morgan
Book 2 - NonFiction - Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America - Catherine Kerrison - Jefferson's Daughters Catherine Kerrison
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 1065
Margaret LTask #20.6: Springfield!
I chose Option 1: a book with over 15,000 Goodreads ratings
Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Has 54,115 ratings at this post
453 pages
Points this post: 20
Total points: 105
DeborahPost #9
25.6 - TraceyL's Task: The Razzie Awards
1)
The Kitchen Daughter4) The Water Dragon's Bride, Vol. 1 by Rei Toma
RT: propeRTy
Points this post: 25
Total Points: 165
Books Read: 12
Tasks Done: 9
Barbara ★REPOSTING...
25.8 - Amy FL’s Task: I’ll Be Back.
Option 2: Read a book with a title of three or more words (subtitles should be ignored) where the first letter of each word appears in MIMETIC POLYALLOY
Magic of Thieves - C. Greenwood 7/18
(M O T in MimeTic pOlyalloy)
Option 3: Read a book by an author whose name is comprised of two first names (middle names should be ignored).
Highland Dragon Warrior - Isabel Cooper 6/17
(both Isabel (#140) and Cooper (#81) are on the list)
Points this task: 25
Total points: 640
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (1) 1000 (0)
Barbara ★15.7 - Hurricane season is here again!
Read a book whose author's name matches the name of a 2020 Atlantic or Pacific hurricane name.
Atlantic Hurricane names or Pacific Hurricane Names.
Come Home Again - Nana Malone (Nana is on the Atlantic list) 7/31
Points this task: 15
Total points: 655
Big Book Tickets: 500 (0) 750 (1) 1000 (0)
Oma122915.10 - Let's Travel (Through Books)!
Read a book from one of these lists: Favourite Travel Books
Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl
Claiming Kon-Tiki as Golden Oldie as it was published in 1948
This book is list on page 1 book #18 on Favourite Travel Books
Total Points-520/1205
Total Tasks-32/65
Golden Oldie Books-(2)
Big Books-500-749();750-999(); 1000+()
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM30. 11 - Sandy's Task: Escape!
I chose Options 1 and 3.
Option 1: I read The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho, 160p, Fantasy is an MPG.
Option 2: I read The Devil of Downtown by Joanna Shupe (mass market paperback for length), 376p, Historical > Historical Fiction is an MPG.
160p + 376p = 536
Previous point total: 100
New points this post: 30
Total points: 130
Total tasks completed: 9
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM20.2 - ROOKIE AT THE TOP – Ciprian's task: Mindfulness
I chose Option 1. I read
by Sherryl Woods. There's a wicker chair and table on the cover. (I'm a knitter)Previous point total: 130
New points this post: 20
Total points: 150
Total tasks completed: 10
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM5.10 - Carefree Summer Days
I read Faith: Taking Flight Julie Murphy.
Previous point total: 150
New points this post: 5
Total points: 155
Total tasks completed: 11
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM10.5 - A to Z
I read The Great Gatsby: The Graphic Novel by Fred Fordham and F. Scott Fitzgerald. A and Z in Fitzgerald.
Previous point total: 155
New points this post: 10
Total points: 165
Total tasks completed: 12
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM15.5 - Again, Really?
I read Harbor by Rebekah Weatherspoon (paperback for length). This is book 3 in the Beards and Bondage series, I read Haven (Book 1) on February 6, 2018.
Previous point total: 165
New points this post: 15
Total points: 180
Total tasks completed: 13
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
PegW20.6 - Seasoned Reader
Option 1: Read a book with over 15,000 Goodreads ratings.
Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Your book must be at least 310 Pages
There are 153,154 reviews at this times, edition I read has 399 pages.
Points this post: 20
Total points: 220
Big Book: 3
Golden Oldies: 0
Tasks completed: 13
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM20.4 - Golden Oldies - Shawn H's Task: A Few of My Favorite Things
I chose Option 4. I read A Duke, the Lady, and a Baby by Vanessa Riley. This is the first book in the new Rogues and Remarkable Women; this series is new to me.
Previous point total: 180
New points this post: 20
Total points: 200
Total tasks completed: 14
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
Julia10330.4 - Wayne's task: Brockian Ultra-Cricket
Option 3: Every Reasonable Doubt (SORRY in title: SOR in ReaSOnable, RY in eveRY)
Option 4: Trading in Danger (on page 1 of list)
This post: 30 points
Total points: 600
BB tickets: 7
GO tickets: 4
Tasks completed: 35
Books read: 49
50.1 Bucket's Task: Toss Away the Could Haves and Should Haves Book 1 - A. Read a book you abandoned/never finished.
Moby Dick by Herman Melville
I abandoned this book in January 2015. I completed it on July 30, 2020.
Book 2 - Read a book from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die.
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
This book is on the second page of the list (#105).
Book 3 - Dive into summer and read any book mentioned in any of the 8 Goodreads Summer Reading blog posts.
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Appears on multiple blogs listed, including
A New Season of Reading: The Hot Books of Summer
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1823
Goodreads' Top Reviewers Pick the 'It' Book of Summer
https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1835
I am claiming a Big Book ticket for Moby Dick
(527 pages)
I am claiming two Golden Oldies tickets for
1. Moby Dick first published in 1851
2. Mrs. Dalloway first published in 1925
This post: 50 points
Total points: 85 points
BB tickets: 2
GO tickets: 3
Tasks completed: 3
Books read: 5
Shelby
5.2 - I'd Watch That
Read a book found on the Books That Should Be Made Into Movies Listopia.: City of Ashes, by Cassandra Clare
How Fits: #1 on Books That Should Be Made Into Movies - pg 1
Points this post: 5
Total points: 320
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
5.4 - Lights, Camera, Action!
Choose a Listopia with the word "Action" intact in the title of the list. Read a book from your chosen list. : Judgment in Death, by J.D. Robb
How Fits: #154 on Romantic Suspense Full of Action - pg 2
Points this post: 5
Total points: 325
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
10.6 - Get Counted
Read a book that has a number of pages that can be found in 3,939,326 and/or 16 and/or 17.: First Drop of Crimson, by Jeaniene Frost
How Fits: Page Count - 371pgs
Points this post: 10
Total points: 335
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
25.1 - Lois's Task: Hair Love
Option 1
Read a book with the word HAIR or LOVE intact in the title or subtitle.: American Love Story, by Adriana Herrera
How Fits: Title: American Love Story
AND
Option 3
Read a book that is short, between 100-200 pages, inclusive.: Transformation, by X. Aratare
How Fits: Page Count - 122pgs
Points this post: 25
Total points: 360
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
Task 25.8 - Amy FL’s Task: I’ll Be Back.
Option 2
Read a book with a title of three or more words (subtitles should be ignored) where the first letter of each word appears in MIMETIC POLYALLOY: Master of the Moon, by Angela Knight
How Fits: Title: Master of the Moon
AND
Option 4
Read a book by a female author with a MPG of action or science fiction.: The 5th Gender, by G.L. Carriger
How Fits: Author: G.L. Carriger is Female & MPG: Science Fiction
Points this post: 25
Total points: 385
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
Shelby
20.6 - Seasoned Reader - Sunshine's Task: Springfield!
Option 2
Read a book originally published in 2007.: Deadly Game, by Christine Feehan
How Fits: Published - February 27, 2007 & Page Count - 368pgs
Points this post: 2
Total points: 405
Big Books: 0
Golden Oldies: 0
30.1 - Mazza1's Task: “STAY HOME / STAY SAFE”OPTION 2 – ONE BOOK OPTION
1. Read a book that fits a task from the requirements for BOTH books 1 and 2 from Option 1.
2. Your book must be over 600 pages in length
11/22/63 Audiobook
Book 1A: Single Word Title
Book 2B: 5 People on cover (2 in back of car, 2 in middle and 1 in front)
11/22/63 MMPB 1120 Pages
Request 3 BB Tickets (1000+ Pages)
Points Earned This Post: 30
Total Points Earned: 245
Golden Oldie Tickets: 1
Big Book Tickets Total: 3
Big Books Read By Page Count: 0 (500) / 0 (750) / 1 (1000)
Julia1035.9 - Take Me Away
The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse
(MPG Humor verified in post 41 of genre verification thread)
This post: 5 points
Total points: 605
BB tickets: 7
GO tickets: 4
Tasks completed: 36
Books read: 50
Nick KY15.6 Red Carpet – I read The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, dresses are red
Points This Post: 15
Total Points So Far: 795
Nick KY30.1 Mazza1’s Stay Home Stay Safe
Opt. 1. Two Books.
Book 1. A. Single word title.I read
Oroonokoby Aphra BehnBook 2. A. Five Words in Title. I read
Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search For Love And Artby Gene Wilder.Points This Post: 30
Total Points So Far: 825
Mary P25.4 Tien's Task: Staying at Home
Book 1:Read a book that you have had in your possession before 1 January 2020.
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
by Gregg Olsen.
I have had this book in my possession since before January 1 2020.
Book 2:Support those authors with cancelled launches by reading a book first published in March - July 2020.
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
First published on July 14 2020.
Points this post: 25
Total points: 160
MAZZA15.1 - See You at the Movies
Read a book written by a single author with at least one initial found in the word: MOVIES.
Inamorata
Author Megan Chance M is in Movies
Points this post = 5
Points to date = 825
MAZZA15.6 - Somebody Set the Clock
Read a book with the letters VCR found in any order in the title/subtitle, series title, and/or author's name.
The Assisted Living Facility Library
V= liVing C = faCility R= libRary
points this post= 5
Points to date = 830
MAZZA110.4 - Ready For A Closeup
Read a book with a central character or subject who is a professional actor or actress.
A Night in with Marilyn Monroe
approved in help thread message 8
points this post = 10
Points to date = 840
MAZZA110.8 - Go Your Own Way
Read a book from a list found at IndieBound's IndieNext List.
Required: Include a LINK to the list you used and if using a Book Group list identify the category.
The Mars Room in May 2018 list
https://www.indiebound.org/indie-next...
Points this post = 10
Points to date = 850
MAZZA115.1 - Moms and Dads
Book 1. Read a book by a female author that was first published during your mother's lifetime, but not your own.
my mother was born in 1926 and I was born in 1957,
They Do It with Mirrors first published 1952
AND
Book 2. Read a book written by a male author, first published during your father's lifetime, but not your own.
My father was born 1924 and me 1957
Brideshead Revisited first published in 1945
This book is published before 1950 and so is a GO and i am claiming 1 ticket
Both books published in required parents life before i was born
Points this post = 15
Points to date 865
GO tickets this post = 1
GO tickets to date = 5
MAZZA1 20.4 - Golden Oldies - Shawn H's Task: A Few of My Favorite Things
Option 1: read a book first published in 1938 or earlier.
Far From the Madding Crowd
Published first in 1874 this book qualifies for a GO ticket which I am claiming
Points this post = 20
Points to date = 885
GO tickets this post = 1
GO tickets to date = 6
MAZZA120.5 - Bigger is Better - MegSCL's Task: Cover Tropes
Option 1: Back to the History
. Read a book with the main page genre Historical Fiction ) and one or more people facing away from you on the cover.
Herring Girl
Approved in help thread https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
points this post = 20
Points to date = 905
MAZZA125.4 Tien's Task: Staying at Home
1. Books in Hand
Read a book that you have had in your possession before 1 January 2020.
REQUIRED: I have had this book since December 2019
Furious Thing
2. New books
Support those authors with cancelled launches by reading a book first published in March - July 2020.
REQUIRED: State first publication date
The Liar's Dictionary publication date July 2nd 2020
Points this post = 25
Points to date = 930
MAZZA130.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Gardening Lessons
Option 1: Emily Dickinson/Gardener
* Read a book first published in December or May of any year.
Seveneves first published May 19th 2015
This book has 867 pages and I am claiming 2 x BB tickets
Option 4: Beatrix Potter Legacy
Read a book by a single author whose first and last name initials can be found in LAKE DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK.
I read an ARC of this book received from Netgalley
The Gates of Athens: Athenian Conn Iggulden C and I in "dIstriCt"
The Gates of Athens No MMP this is HB edition with page numbers due to be released January 2021
Points this post = 30
Points to date = 960
BB tickets this post = 2
BB tickets to date = 15
Reposting Message 2380Correcting requirement of task 30.11 option 2 which asked to specifically state that the country has not been visited.
30. 11 - Sandy's Task: Escape!
2. Read a book set at least 50% in a country you have never visited. State in your post that you have never visited the country. REQUIRED: If the setting is not clear in the GR description or metadata, include a link to a source establishing the setting.
Business as Usual
Set in London, England. I have never been to England.
claiming a golden oldie. Published in 1933
3. Read a book with the main page genre history or historical fiction or time travel.
August Folly
Genre: Historical Fiction
claiming a golden oldie. Published in 1936
Points this task: 30
Books read this task: 2
Golden oldie claimed this task: 2
Big book claimed this task: 0
Total points: 150
Total Tasks completed: 10
Total Golden oldies: 6
Total Big Book tickets: 0
Helen BRepost to include cover for first book
30.1 - “STAY HOME / STAY SAFE”
Option 1.
Book 1 B
by William J. MannSingle person on the cover.
Book 2 A
Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate: How the Alt-Right Is Warping the American Imagination by Alexandra Minna Stern
5+ words in title
Total points: 235
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM10.3 - This is CNN.
I read Everything Is an Emergency: An OCD Story in Words Pictures by Jason Adam Katzenstein. C in OCD, N in Everything, N in An.
Previous point total: 195
New points this post: 10
Total points: 205
Total tasks completed: 14
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM5.3 - World Cinema
I read Mexican Gothic by Slivia Morena-Garcia. The book is set 100% in Mexico, the proportion of English speakers in Mexico is 12.9%.
Previous point total: 205
New points this post: 5
Total points: 210
Total tasks completed: 15
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM15.6. The Red Carpet.
I read
by Alexis Hall. The "something red" are the red color blocks in the background.Previous point total: 210
New points this post: 15
Total points: 225
Total tasks completed: 16
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM5.1 - See You at the Movies
I read How to Take Awesome Photos of Cats by Andrew Marttila. M is in MOVIES.
Previous point total: 230
New points this post: 5
Total points: 235
Total tasks completed: 17
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
Readerboard name: BALLETBOOKWORM15.9 - Facts Matter!
I read The Habsburgs: To Rule the World by Martyn Rady. History is an MPG.
Previous point total: 235
New points this post: 15
Total points: 250
Total tasks completed: 18
GO tickets this post: 0
Total GO: 0
Big Book tickets this post: 0
Total Big Books: 0
Whitnie I10.4 - Ready For A Closeup
Read a book with a central character or subject who is a professional actor or actress. Actor biographies and memoirs work. Required: If it is not evident include a reference to establish how the book fits the task.
Ballet Shoes. AR Book Finder IL = MG, BL = 5.7, AR Pts. = 9.0. Two of the three children in the book work as paid actors.
Points this post: 10
Total Points: 610
BB Tickets: 10
25.1 - Lois's Task: Hair LoveThis is a 2-book task. One of the books may be sequential art format.
Option 3: Read a book that is short, between 100-200 pages, inclusive.
Parnassus on Wheels
Number of pages = 152
Claiming a golden oldie. Published in 1917
Option 4: Read a graphic novel or graphic memoir (MPG Sequential Art>Graphic Novels)
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1: The Apocalypse Suite
Points this task: 25
Books read this task: 2
Golden oldie claimed this task: 1
Big book claimed this task: 0
Total points: 175
Total Tasks completed: 11
Total Golden oldies: 7
Total Big Book tickets: 0
Julia10320.7 - SHORTER IS SWEETER – Cindie’s Task — Small is a State of Mind
Option 3: Mrs. Pollifax and the Whirling Dervish by Dorothy Gilman
(female author born in NJ)
This post: 20 points
Total points: 625
BB tickets: 7
GO tickets: 4
Tasks completed: 37
Books read: 51
30.3 - Ava Catherine’s Task: Gardening Lessonsoption 1 Read a book first published in December or May of any year.
You Against Me by Jenny Downham published December 2nd 2010
option 3 read a book whose page count contains a 2 and a 3.
Normal People by Sally Rooney pages 273
Points this Post: 30
Total Points: 30
Total Tasks: 1
Total Books: 2
5.5 - Summer BlockbustersRead a book with a word in the title/subtitle that matches a word in the title of one of the 75 Best Summer Blockbusters of All Time.
45. Drag Me to Hell
Heartbreak Me by T.L. Smith
Points this Post: 5
Total Points: 135
Total Tasks: 8
Golden Oldies: 0
Big Books: 1
Total Books: 10
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**Original Post #18**
10.2 - “A Boy's Best Friend Is His Mother.”
The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware
**I want to use this book in a different task**
Points this Post: -10
Total Points: 525